CAIN: My Mistakes Make Me Presidential

Herman Cain exhibited his penchant for unconventional logic once again this afternoon, telling reporters that his recent policy flip-flops and gaffes are simply signs that he has what it takes to be President of the United States.

Addressing these and other questions after a Chicago fundraiser today, Cain told reporters that his mistakes are what make him a serious candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

"The thing that's going to convince people that my campaign is credible is if I make a misstatement, I'm going to retract it," Cain said, according to ABC News. "If I make a mistake, I'm going to admit I made a mistake. The last perfect person was hung on a cross 2,000 years ago."

"We also left room for that and it was in the plan all along. People simply did not read all the way through the plan," Cain said Monday. "It's not new. It's been there all along and it does not reduce the overall revenue that we raise because we left room for that in the revenue we're going to raise."

Details about the 9-9-9 plan — and the 9-0-9 plan — have been vague, at best. Cain's first mention of the new 9-0-9 plan appears to have been during a rally in Detroit last Friday.